Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-01-28
GENERAL NEWS.
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oOhh IL DuHNou SohhoiuatioH
split up at ST. Paul.
Mrs. Langtry denies the report that
her husband is dead.
Indians at Fl Belknap have agreed
to take land in severalty.
Ex-Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, is going
to locate in New York.
Boyd Linki, Polander, hung him
self in the Jail at Nantlcoke, Pa.
Two new comets have been discov-
cred by the astronomical professors.
Gen. Chas. p. Stone, late of the
Federal Army is dead at New York.
Michael Davltt and wife sailed
from New York for England yester-
day.
1t is now thought quite certain that
Mrs. Logan's pension bill will not
pass.
The national convention of woman
sufTragists met in Washington yester-
day.
Joseph Armstrong, a hunter, was
killed by wolves IN Delta county,
Michigan.
Gov. Foraker of Ohio has issued a
proclamation quaranIinidg against
Illinois cattle.
According to the official asylum re-
port, lunacy in Massachusetts, is OH
the increase.
Wheel moulders of St. Charles, Mo-,
struck for an advance of wages and
obtained it.
Arguments began in the United
States supreme court Monday in the
telephone cases.
Director Thorne of Cordova obser-
vatory, South America, has discover
ed new comet.
Mrs. Clarissa d. Raymond has just
died in Connecticut, aged l04 years,
months and 25 days.
Philadelphia ministers in mass
meeting denounce the ballet as i'm
modest aud immoral.
The United Labor party at Phila-
delphia yesterday put full ticket il,
the field for city offices.
Cape Girardeau Normal school has
adopted Monday as the day of rest
instead of Saturday.
Maj Geo. Lockwood has resigned
his position in the interior depart
ment, after eight years service.
Tennessee is having lively boom,
twelve railroad charters having been
granted in the past five weeks.
A boiler explosion in the steel
works at marlborough, Pa, killed |
two men and wounded several others.
Maj. James II. Wright, of Carol
county, Missouri, is to have a judicial
position in one of the territories.
The pill factory which turned out
Carriers little liver pills at New
York was burned ont yesterday.
Statistics of the American whale
fisheries show the business to have
been disastrous the past season.
The postoflice at Columbus, Miss,
was entered and robbed of about $500
in money and several re- istered let
ters.
AT O'Neil City, Neb., mob drove
an editor named Claiborne and his
wife and man named Tebault out of
town.
The residence of II. L, Ross, at Form
City, Pa, was destroyed by fire Mon
day and his four children burned TO
death.
The President of the United States
is asked to act as arbitrator between
Costa Rica and Nicaragua on the
boundary question.
A prize-fight between Pete Mccoy
and freddy Gallagher at Cleveland,
o., was stopped by the police after
five rounds had been fought.
Two little girls fell into a swollen
creek at Niagara Falls and were car
ried by the rushing waters through
sewer fer three-quarters of a mile.
The were rescued alive at the mouth
of the opening.
Andrew Howard, of Dawson Co.,
Ga, was shot and wounded from am
bush by five men, who afterward
finished their work by stamping him
to death. Howard was a witness in
the United States Court against the